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Cake day: December 10th, 2022

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  • If one where to think that Trump where the lesser of two evils would you discourage them from voting Libertarian?

    For most people a vote for Trump or Biden is actually a wasted vote. Most states are solidly Blue or Red so voting R/D won’t change anything. It is far more likely that your single vote for a new Party’s candidate will get them over the threshold to maintain ballot access for the following election cycle, than your vote for an old Party’s candidate will get them over the threshold to receive the plurality of the vote. Maintaining ballot access for new parties allows them to spend more money the next time actually getting out their message and building votes rather than having to spend most of it paying petitioners to get back on the ballot again. Eventually this could lead to a more representative multi-party system in the USA. But treating every election as “the most important election of our lifetime” and refusing to vote for a candidate that more closely represents your values rather than the one more likely to beat the candidate you dislike most, purpurates the system of abuse. Its like a person returning to their previous partner that verbally abuses them because they fear their partner that physically abuses them.













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    Since then I’ve come to believe like Big Bill Haywood and the Industrial Unionists, that there are actually only two classes, the working class and the boss class, and everything else is just mumbo jumbo made up to turn the working class against themselves so as to keep the boss class in power. It’s not about money, its about control



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    “Biden’s actual net worth is about $10 million, according to Forbes, which referred to him as “Middle-Class Joe” (though, in fairness, there’s nothing “middle class” about being worth $10 million).”

    One of the things that struck me when I was studying political science in university was that “everyone considers themselves middle class” my professor exemplified this by saying he made $70,000 a year and considers himself middle-class while his brother-in-law made $700,000 a year and called himself middle class, and I knew my parents made $20,000 and considered themselves middle class. So it makes sense why every politician is always “worried” about the middle-class.